The Best Free Software for Localization
Olifant is a free TM Editor that makes up for the shortcomings of CAT programs which provide either a very basic, and hence inadequate memory-editing facility, or none at all. [contextazon id=’1′] As a TM Editor Olifant allows you to load or import translation memories in different formats (such as […]
Update: Lightning is now already integrated into Thunderbird Mozilla Lightning is a free calendar solution for the Thunderbird email client. You can easily add appointments and tasks and you can choose to be reminded by an alarm in case of important events. The calendar offers a daily, weekly and monthly […]
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, safe, fast email client that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you […]
In some cases it is useful to have a good text editor at hand, to quickly buffer a text (e.g. copied from a website) without any formatting (font, bold, underline, color, etc.). Notepad++ is the best text editor I know. It is fast and requires very little resources. Notepad ++ […]
Updates: Linux based OS tuxtrans, an OS for translators, contains OmegaT OmegaT is a free computer-assisted translation tool (CAT) or translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators. [contextazon id=’1′] OmegaT has the following features among others: Fuzzy matching Match propagation Simultaneous processing of […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Count Anything is a free word-count utility for Windows. Word/character counts are an essential part of the work of translators, writers, and others who need to bill based on word counts. There are several word-count utilities around, some of them free, but this one was written because other […]
Office tools are a very important building block, because documents received for translation are in many cases provided as a document in Microsoft format (doc, docx, etc.). Microsoft Office (or compatible software) is therefore the tool most people would go for and you would need a version with at least […]